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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I think it is very difficult, if not impossible to see the Antichrist as anything but a European leader.
The Great Eagle (as opposed to other Eagles like Mexico) would certainly be the US, it is also described as "the wilderness" and a place to flee to.
Gog -- Russia, MaGog -- China.
Armageddon is clearly a place in the Middle East. The Four corners of the Earth are tied up at the Tigris/Euphrates -- sounds like the current situation in Iraq.
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All Revelation chapter 12 actually says about this is
Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.
That people still look to the fulfillment of
Revelation's in the 21st century is a testimony to the book's power to symbolize people's existential angst. To make that symbolic story into something about the USA 2000 years later seems like desperately wishful thinking. It is like an eagle flying in the face of the probability that John was writing about people and events of the world he knew and he knew nothing about the world 20 centuries later.